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xAI’s legal chief steps down after whirlwind year


Robert Keele said this week that he has stepped down as xAI's head of legal after just over a year, saying he wants to spend more time with his children.

Before his entrepreneurial stint, Keele had been head of legal at autonomous aircraft maker Elroy Air and general counsel at Airbus’s Silicon Valley innovation center. Musk — who also has numerous longstanding lieutenants — openly expects employees to work long hours, even if it means sleeping at the office, as happened when he acquired X, formerly Twitter. Some newer companies appear to have adopted a similar mentality to get ahead of rivals, including AI coding startup Cognition, which is looking to aggressively shrink its team.

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